What is this for a point please?
Experts?
Any link to the Anhui-Anchi minicar?
Quote from: el_monty on July 06, 2015, 08:39:58 AM
Any link to the Anhui-Anchi minicar?
Sorry, but not that I know of.
Pros?
Electric ?
Made in Europe ?
Made in a Mediterranean country ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 08, 2015, 08:46:57 AM
Made in a Mediterranean country ?
It's not been made anywhere as yet, but it's from a partly Mediterranean country.
French?
From Spain ?
Project of a known "sans permis" make ?
University / research institute project ?
Is the company behind this known for other cars ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 08, 2015, 02:04:59 PM
Is the company behind this known for other cars ?
No, not yet.
Is the company located in the northern half of France ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 09, 2015, 03:17:10 AM
Is the company located in the northern half of France ?
Sorry but I can't find any reference to their location in France.
Does this company have its own website or maybe just a Facebook page ?
They have a website, but not related directly to this vehicle.
So their main activity is not building cars ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 10, 2015, 06:28:29 AM
So their main activity is not building cars ?
Yes.
Is it a company in the electrical power industry sector ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 10, 2015, 09:21:18 AM
Is it a company in the electrical power industry sector ?
The company is indirectly involved with electricity.
Are they making batteries ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 10, 2015, 12:41:22 PM
Are they making batteries ?
I'm not 100% certain what this company does, but it's not batteries AFAIK.
Does this company actually make products, or rather does it provide services ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 10, 2015, 01:34:03 PM
Does this company actually make products, or rather does it provide services ?
It currently provides products and services AFAIK, but plans to build an example of this car in the future.
Does this company operate in the transportation sector ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 10, 2015, 01:50:25 PM
Does this company operate in the transportation sector ?
Yes, I believe so.
If the company is indirectly involved with electricity but hasn't build cars yet, I guess it's operating in the railroad industry ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 10, 2015, 03:52:35 PM
If the company is indirectly involved with electricity but hasn't build cars yet, I guess it's operating in the railroad industry ?
No railroad connections that I know of. Sorry!
Is this company's activity related to the delivery of goods ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 10, 2015, 05:22:05 PM
Is this company's activity related to the delivery of goods ?
No
Is this company's activity related to the transportation of persons ?
is this a supplier to the automotive industry?
Quote from: oko94 on August 10, 2015, 10:10:04 PM
Is this company's activity related to the transportation of persons ?
Indirectly, yes.
Quote from: pnegyesi on August 11, 2015, 01:54:37 AM
is this a supplier to the automotive industry?
Not an OEM supplier, but indirectly connected.
Is this company a car dealer ?
a book publisher?
Does this company operate in the logistics / supply chain sector ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 11, 2015, 10:07:21 AM
Does this company operate in the logistics / supply chain sector ?
I admire your perseverance Oko! The company is indirectly in the supply chain sector.
Scoring 160 Pro points requires a bit of perseverance indeed ;D
Does this company provide software for the logistics industry ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 11, 2015, 10:16:54 AM
Scoring 160 Pro points requires a bit of perseverance indeed ;D
Does this company provide software for the logistics industry ?
Indeed, life can be tough for us Pros!
The company does not provide software.
once again, is it a book publisher?
Let's sum it up as I have a hard time trying to connect the dots :
- This company currently provides products and services.
- This company is indirectly involved with electricity.
- This company's activity is indirectly related to the transportation of persons.
- This company is indirectly connected with OEM suppliers.
- This company is indirectly in the supply chain sector.
Does this company provide some kind of industrial robots, tools or machines used in suppliers' factories ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 11, 2015, 11:01:45 AM
Let's sum it up as I have a hard time trying to connect the dots :
- This company currently provides products and services.
- This company is indirectly involved with electricity.
- This company's activity is indirectly related to the transportation of persons.
- This company is indirectly connected with OEM suppliers.
- This company is indirectly in the supply chain sector.
Does this company provide some kind of industrial robots, tools or machines used in suppliers' factories ?
Thanks Oka, a good summary of where we are so far.
The company doesn't provide machine tool services, etc.
Does this company provide communication devices or services, data centers or cloud computing for the supply chain industry ?
Quote from: oko94 on August 11, 2015, 06:36:38 PM
Does this company provide communication devices or services, data centers or cloud computing for the supply chain industry ?
Sorry, but none of these.
is this a real manufacturing company as opposed to say, a cluster?
Quote from: pnegyesi on August 12, 2015, 02:40:44 PM
is this a real manufacturing company as opposed to say, a cluster?
Thus company exists, but it is not building vehicles as yet.
was this company set up by various other companies involved in the automobile industry?
Quote from: pnegyesi on August 12, 2015, 11:37:41 PM
was this company set up by various other companies involved in the automobile industry?
No, not AFAIK.
was this company set up prior to 2010?
Quote from: pnegyesi on August 13, 2015, 05:44:10 AM
was this company set up prior to 2010?
Sorry but I don't know the answer to that one, although I suspect they were founded after 2010.
was this company set up by the government?
does this company produces raw materials?
does this company produce tangible things?
is the material of these tangible things relevant?
Quote from: pnegyesi on August 16, 2015, 06:56:45 AM
is the material of these tangible things relevant?
Yes, relevant to the car ;)
Is the company in question Schneider Electric?
This was an illustration on Plug & Move's website
Plug & Move was a website and a smartphone app developed by EDF, Europcar, AXA, Navteq and Schneider. Their aim was to help electric car users by providing them useful information and advice. Website and app were launched in 2012 and are down now.
The puzzle car never actually existed and never will, it was just a CGI illustration. Here is another illustration used by Plug & Move (most probably a photoshopped Renault Zoe).
Quote from: oko94 on August 16, 2015, 10:05:47 AM
This was an illustration on Plug & Move's website
Well done Oko94, your persistence final paid off, so another point to you. Thank you for the additional information too, although I do dispute the claim that there was no production plan for the Re-Volt, as this is not the case. I spoke to Plug & Move some time back at the Paris Salon, and they had a serious proposal in place to build the Re-Volt, which has since been revised to a later, more up to date model.
Quote from: Djetset on August 17, 2015, 12:15:28 PM
I do dispute the claim that there was no production plan for the Re-Volt, as this is not the case. I spoke to Plug & Move some time back at the Paris Salon, and they had a serious proposal in place to build the Re-Volt, which has since been revised to a later, more up to date model.
Interesting. I have read the official Plug & Move press release and the press articles that have been issued in 2012 when the service was launched, and there was not a word about the production of an electric car. "Re-Volt!" was not the name of a car, but the slogan of the service.
In 2013, one of the questions of the "Plug & Move Road Tour 2013" contest was :
"What is Plug & Move?
1 - A website specializing in the rental of electric vehicle
2 - A community platform dedicated to electric mobility
3 - The name of a new electric car"
The correct answer was n°2.
I'm not questioning what you've been told, but maybe the initial plan for Plug & Move was to launch both a service and a car, and then it got scaled back when they realized it was over-ambitious, as none of the companies involved in Plug & Move had experience in car making ? And now that Plug & Move has been closed, I'm afraid we won't hear from them anytime soon.
Thanks for the point, by the way ;)
Thanks for the further update Oko. As you say, this start-up company had ambitious plans that realistically it was always going to struggle to achieve, but the employee I spoke to was very insistent that they would build this car one day. Sadly their closure means that we will never really know how far they progressed with their plans. :(